Furmanite’s Silk Machines


Standard Silk Machine Applications

  • Turning machines for all sizes of flange facing
  • End-mounted turning machines
  • Heavy duty drilling and boring machines
  • Orbital milling machines
  • Linear and X-Y milling machines

In addition to our standard line of products, Furmanite will also custom design and manufacture equipment in order to solve any unique customer need. Furmanite specifically has had a long track record of providing custom solutions to Defence and Nuclear providers around the world. No application is outside Furmanite’s design and engineering capabilities.

Furmanite’s Silk machines are successfully in use in the following industries around the world:

  • Refineries
  • Petrochemical plants
  • Iron and steel works
  • Offshore platforms
  • Gas processing plants
  • Ships and shipyards
  • Automotive
  • Aerospace
  • Defence
  • Nuclear power
  • Transport

Furmanite’s Silk Machines

Silk™ Portable Machines –onsite, in-situ, anytime machining applications

Furmanite has built its reputation on providing superior solutions – technological applications – for its customers. In order to do that, we’ve produced the most state-of-the-art machine tools for our technicians to use out in the field. Now Furmanite is able to offer you a wide range of these truly unique and portable machine tools, enabling you to make repairs onsite and in-situ.

Furmanite’s Silk portable and lightweight machine tools provide high tolerance solutions for a variety of problems. Renowned for their capability, capacity and sound engineering, our Silk machines now allow your plant personnel to perform precision onsite machining with minimum disruption to plant operations, and the potential to reduce or eliminate equipment scrapping.

Each machine that is part of the Silk product line is designed and manufactured to perform difficult machining tasks, in many different locations including hazardous environments. Our standard Silk machines are either pneumatically or hydraulically powered, and are robust, modular – for ease of assembly and manhandling, simple to operate and designed to exceed the latest design and safety standards.


Furmanite - 80 Years of Innovation & Counting

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